Heath status, frailty, and multimorbidity in patients with emergency general surgery conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although nearly 1 million older adults are admitted for emergency general surgery conditions yearly, the extent to which baseline health influences the development and treatment of emergency general surgery conditions is unknown. We evaluated baseline health and older patients with and without emergency general surgery conditions.

Methods

We used the prospectively collected Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey with Medicare claims and 2 validated health frameworks: (1) Deficit Accumulation Frailty Score and (2) Complex Multimorbidity. Self-reported health and function items were used to derive pre-emergency general surgery conditions Deficit Accumulation Frailty Score and Complex Multimorbidity scores. Deficit Accumulation Frailty Score ranges from 0 (no frailty de

SUBMITTER: Ho VP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature